Valentine

 Well, it can be a Happy Valentine Day if you can love yourself.  To wish someone else a happy Day while ruing your day and life, does not bring much happiness to them.  A Valentine starts from within oneself.  You give the love you have for yourself and expand it to love others.  You cannot give love that you do not have.  Many people sit in recovery meetings feeling down because on this day they don’t have someone “special” as a Valentine.  But the fact that they are in recovery shows they loved themself enough to do the recovery work of showing up.  At this point, my life is bad if I make it bad.  Attitude comes with perspective.  My mailbox may have cobwebs, but I will love myself for becoming the me I am today.  Happy Valentine’s Day from my heart.